An Evening's Rose - Dining Out

Like a rose, you filled space in the parlor, The candles on tables made pale, Queen of all you surveyed, unaware of my day dreams, You rose, the first star over dale! Gourmet sights burst on every channel, Our smell and our taste waiting hit, But the crown of your aura showed Firefly intent, The world didn’t matter a bit! There are strangers we see that we warm to Great lovers perhaps from past life? Though mythologies fade in an instant's repose, still Their comfort can cut like a knife! I thought, briefly, I'm missing another, Then caught myself, she will be fine! For real love is not lost that remains in its package God's heart savors each Valentine! So I let myself love from a distance, Ditched self-serving sorrows and pains, Did not rise as her party stood up and was leaving, For "Rain in Spain stays on the plains!" Brian Johnston Feb 11, 2017